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May 01, 2005
Lukas 4ever: Moodysson's UK DVD tussle
Brit DVD distrib Metrodome offers a technical-economic lesson in DVD distribbing to the readers of DVDAnswers.com, as they prepare a 4-film Region 2 Lukas Moodysson box-set: "While the sentiments of those who have emailed us are understandable, it is an all too familiar chorus from consumers who, quite frankly, are not at all familiar with the processes of independent distribution, an arena which [isn't] blessed with the unlimited ancillary funds of a major studio... Due to [it being] a smaller arthouse release, it was not cost-effective to pay a substantial amount upfront to convert this in a 16x9 transfer [or to make a new] widescreen transfer via telecine from the original negative... As an independent distributor we can only work with what we've been supplied... [The producers] and Lukas Moodysson themselves are quite happy that we will have the best possible version of the film, from the materials supplied to us, available for the UK market... substantially smaller than the market for, say, Criterion..."
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